By Gary Topping– I spent most of my working life in downtown Salt Lake City—in fact, in some of the city’s roughest districts. Part of my life, almost daily, was…
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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– It’s not every day you get to take a summer road trip, even if it is just for a couple of hours, with a Trappist monk.…
By Marianna Hopkins (Guest Contributor)– August 2020 is no time to question anyone’s anguish. After all, our world is filled with worries over a global pandemic and how it should…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My how time flies…Beethoven is 250 years old in 2020! I cannot let such a landmark birthday pass by unnoticed. After all, he wrote the crescendo…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– The Summer of 2020 has delivered both nightmares and dreams. Not even my overactive imagination could conjure up the scenario where I sign my first book…
By Gary Topping– (Editor’s note: It’s lake monster week on The Boy Monk blog. On Monday, Mike O’Brien blogged about his admiration for an 1868 report about the Bear Lake…
(Editor’s note: Yesterday Mike O’Brien wrote about his admiration for Joseph Rich’s 152 year old report on the Bear Lake monster (see: https://theboymonk.com/my-152-years-of-never-seeing-the-bear-lake-monster/). Today, the original Rich letter from the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– My family loves me, but never hesitates to remind me about my many defects. A commonly-discussed flaw is my innate inability to spot most of the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I often have thought it might be cool to live in a named era…maybe something like the Age of Aquarius, the Roaring Twenties, or La Belle…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Years ago, I watched the 1939 movie version of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I was entranced when Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) flew into the Cathedral square,…